Carroll County, MD CCG 24 News, 16 Mar 2022

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From YouTube: Jena Bierman - Hero of Carroll Hospital

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My name is jenna biermann, I'm a patient care technician at carroll hospital center.

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In the critical care department, coven 19 was something that I never thought would happen.

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In my career or my lifetime it was very difficult to go from.

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You know caring for patients to the full extent to being so overloaded with patients.

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And very sick patients. These these patients aren't allowed to see their families and um you.

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Know it's constant face time calls with these families and it's it was devastating for sure.

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I am now an advocate for these patients and their families. You are there for them. So a big.

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Thing that changed throughout the pandemic was that we were their friend. We are their support.

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They don't get to see their families or talk to their families. All they have is us, so um that was.

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A big change, you know caregivers and nurses. They are right there at the bedside, but now they're.

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At the bedside in this isolated room, where they aren't allowed to leave, there aren't allowed to.

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See their families or loved ones, and you become that for them so that changed a lot for us of.

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Course, there's many difficult things that go in tie in with our position at the hospital.

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Especially with kovid, but I would have to say for me personally, the most difficult part is doing the.

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Face times, especially if you have a patient who's, quite young um and their children are on facetime.

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And they're just saying: mommy daddy come home, you know, that's probably the hardest.

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Part, we don't get to see many patients in the critical care unit make it out. Unfortunately,.

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Our bad days are worse than our. You know our good days. We have way more of the bad days.

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However, we have patients like brett whalen, who do incredible, and I always say every day when we.

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Have someone who recovers and gets out of our unit, I'm like every bad day, is worth this moment to be.

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Able to see somebody get better and go home and be with their families and then to reunite with them.

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Is probably the most rewarding thing I've ever had in my career? I've actually had patients who.

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Have said you know, I've seen them laying there on their belly with a mask on the verge of being.

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Intubated- and they say I swear as soon as I get out of this place- I'm getting vaccinated um and.

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You know it's just like uh it's too late now, like now you're going to be intubated you're, going to.

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Be you know this is going to be a long road um and you know it. I've heard so many times. People wish.

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That they have got, you know, got the vaccine and we have had patients who have recovered trached.

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Pigs have gone to rehab and they got the vaccine as soon as they could, um because those patients, if.

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They got coveted again, they they had too much too much damage to the lungs and they just wouldn't.

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Do well if they got coped again, so um you know a lot of people do realize um towards the end.

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Of things you know when they are really sick. To that point, they're like ugh I wish that I would.

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Have done this um and the families too, you know they say I'm getting vaccinated as soon as I can.

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Because they hate seeing their families like this, you know when it hits home things change for sure.